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Hello and Welcome to our Blog! We will be using this blog to engage in conversations about our pre-institute reading of Regie Routman's Teaching Essentials. As you read each chapter, please post your thoughts and reflections here. Thanks! Becky and Christy
Oopps sorry, I am reading and writing at same time. my time is very limited today. I am appreciating this arcticle filling the room with sound of wondrous words. I read to my kids for lots of reason. I enjoy watching the faces and the body lang of my students as I draw them into my words and the sounds.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite most flattering watched read is my students pretending to be me. Boys and girls model what I have modeled, reading and drawing their audience in. Sometimes it is the imaginary audience.:) I listen to the tone, the excitement and know all my reading to them has a purpose as they are caring it on.
My students and I keep a bucket of wonderous words. We write them and talk about them following the reading and sometimes when we have an extra minute or so will pick one out and review the word. Have we read that anywhere else? What does it mean? How can we use it with our writing? Choral reading is also great for the lower students. They feel a part and get excited when they feel like readers. I firmly believe if I celebrate my readers they tend to want to write and share with us. I have a day for each child to share a writing piece, that way each student has a shine time.
I love Katie Wood Ray! She just makes me so excited about reading and words. This article about filling your class with the sound of wondrous words is so inspirational. I loved how she related read alouds to wonderful vegetables, and how we need several servings a day. I also loved the parts about having her children find striking parts of a writing, and then the practice reading them in their best read aloud voice. This is so .simple, but so great! I thought her idea of having the student read aloud to the class was so smart. I never thought of this. Her suggestions of why you may not hear the sounds of the read alouds in the student's writing made me take a hard look at my own practices. This could be a reason why my reluctant writers have such a hard time.
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